Modern English biography

(1888). OKEY, CHARLES HENRY (son of Henry Okey). _b._ 7 April 1797; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1805 and at Heidelberg univ.; barrister I.T. 9 May 1823; private sec. to lord Stuart de Rothesay, when ambassador to France 1828–30; counsel to British embassy at Paris; police magistrate Antigua 1862, puisne justice and member of council Aug. 1863; knight of legion of honor; author of Droit d’ Aubaine de la Grande Britaine, Paris 1830, 2 ed. 1831; A concise digest of the law affecting the commercial and civil intercourse of the subjects of Great Britain and France, 2 ed. 1829, 6 ed. 1842. _d._ 1876. OKEY, ELIZABETH. _b._ 1824; she and her sister Jane, _b._ 1826, were cured of epileptic fits by Dr. John Elliotson by mesmerism; they were experimented on by Dr. Elliotson at his residence in Conduit st. Hanover sq. London 1842, before audiences, when he made them do many wonderful things in a mesmeric state; E. Okey was an inmate of University college hospitals under Dr. John Elliotson from April 1837; she developed a power of seeing spirits sitting on the beds of patients who were about to die, which had a baneful effect on all the patients; turned out of the the hospital 28 Dec. 1838. _T. Wakley’s Undeniable facts concerning practices of Dr. Elliotson with E. & J. Okey_ (1842); _The Lancet 5 Jany. 1839 pp._ 561–2, 590–7. OLD, JOHN. _b._ Totnes 1829; studied under John and Edward Loder 1842, and at Royal academy of music under sir W. S. Bennett, and afterwards under Thalberg and Molique; conductor of Torquay choral soc. 1855–9; settled at Reading 1859, where he founded the Layston college of music, which had 200 pupils; composer of The seventh seal, a sacred drama 1853; The battle, a dramatic solo and chorus 1854; Herne, a legend of royal Windsor, an opera in 3 acts, libretto by E. Oxenford 1879, performed at Reading; his name is attached to upwards of 40 pieces of music 1849–79; he also contributed essays to The Monthly musical record. _d._ Reading 4 Feb. 1892. OLDAKER, WILLIAM FITZHARDINGE (son of Tom Oldaker, huntsman). _b._ Woodbank, Gerrard’s Cross 1810; a saddler at Finsbury and Upper Brook street, London, his hunting saddles were in much request; a dealer in horses; rode in a steeplechase 1838; managed the stag hunting establishments of barons Lionel and Nathaniel Rothschild; ran a match with John Darby at Horncastle; retired and lived at Gerrard’s cross, Middlesex; resided at Newbold-on-Avon near Rugby 1865, where he hunted with all the neighbouring packs; retired to Woodbank, Chester 1880. _d._ Woodbank 6 Sept. 1884. _W. Day’s Turf Celebrities_ (1891) 107–16; _Baily’s Mag. xliii_ 121–2 (1885). OLDFIELD, JOHN (only son of John Nicholls Oldfield, lieutenant in royal marines, _d._ 1793). _b._ Portsmouth 29 May 1789; 2 lieut. R.E. 2 April 1806, captain 26 Jany. 1815, placed on h.p. April 1819; served at battle of Waterloo and the occupation of Paris; commanded the R.E. in Newfoundland Sept. 1830 to Oct. 1835, in Jersey Oct. 1835 to March 1839, and in Canada March 1839 to 1843, where he served during the rebellion; K.H. 23 July 1830; A.D.C. to the queen 9 Nov. 1841; colonel R.E. 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 25 Oct. 1859 to death; commanded the R.E. in Ireland 1848–54; general 3 April 1862; contributed Memoranda on the use of asphalte to the Professional papers of the corps of the R.E., new series, vols. 3 and 5. _d._ Oldfield lawn, Emsworth, Sussex 2 Aug. 1863. _bur._ Westbourne. OLDHAM, JAMES. _b._ 17 Jany. 1817; educ. Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1865; in practice at 53 Norfolk square, Brighton 1842–80; a founder of the Brighton and Sussex medical chirurgical soc. 1847, president; purchased and supported a coffee tavern; chief supporter of St. Christopher’s home for sick children at Hayward’s Heath. _d._ Lucastes, Hayward’s Heath 26 Dec. 1881. _Lancet i_ 40 (1882). OLDHAM, JAMES (son of a millwright). _b._ Hull 23 June 1801; at sea in the Baltic 1815–7; an apprentice to his father 1817; built a movable bridge for Hull corporation; reclaimed for the commissioners of woods and forests 700 acres in the estuary of the Humber 1850; government inspector of steamers for Hull; gave evidence before parliamentary committee on public works connected with Hull; wrote a paper on the Reclamation of land from seas and estuaries, for which he obtained Council premium of Institution of Civil engineers 1862; superintended tidal observations on the Humber, Trent and Ouse for British Association 1862–4; took George Bohn into partnership 1874, made the Hull and Barnsley railway and the Alexandra dock; M.I.C.E. 28 Jany. 1834. _d._ Hull 10 June 1890. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ciii_ 377–80 (1891). OLDHAM, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Oldham). _b._ Dublin 4 May 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin 1832, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1846, LL.D. 1874; chief geological assistant in ordnance survey of Ireland 1839, surveyed counties of Kerry and Tyrone 1843; assistant professor of engineering Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, professor of geology 1845–51; president of Dublin geological society 1846; local director for Ireland of geological survey of the United Kingdom 1846; discovered in the rocks of Bray Head, co. Wicklow, the fossils or organic marks named after him Oldhamia 1849; superintendent of geological survey of India Nov. 1850, retired 1876; M.R.I.A. 1842; F.G.S. 1843; F.R.S. 9 June 1848, royal medallist 1875; member of royal Asiatic society of Bengal 1857, president four times; author of On the geological structure of part of the Khasi hills 1854; Memoirs of the geological survey of India, Palentologia Indica 1861; Memoranda on the result of an examination of the salt range in the Punjab 1864; Catalogue of the meteoric stones in the museum of the Geological survey of India 1865, 2 ed. 1868; Catalogue of the organic remains belonging to the echinodermata 1865; edited Records of the Geological survey of India 1868 etc. _d._ 18 Hillmorton’s road, Rugby 17 July 1878. _Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxv_ 46–8 (1879); _Geological Mag._ (1878) 382. OLDHAM, WILTON. _b._ 1835; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A., LL.B. and LL.D. 1865; of Bengal civil service; magistrate at Ghazipore; C. of St. Michael, Louth 1878–80; C. of Stoke Bishop, Bristol 1880 to death; author of Historical and statistical memoir of Ghazipore 2 vols. 1870–6; Tenant right and auction sales in Ghazipore 1873. _d._ St. Servan, France 2 Oct. 1883. OLDKNOW, SIR JAMES (son of John Oldknow). _b._ Nottingham 1821; a lace manufacturer; alderman of Nottingham, mayor 1869, 1878, and 1879; after the visit of the prince and princess of Wales to open the Castle Art museum, knighted at Osborne 14 Aug. 1878. _d._ Villa road, Nottingham 4 Jany. 1888. OLDKNOW, JOSEPH (son of Octavius Oldknow mayor of Nottingham). _b._ Nottingham 16 March 1809; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1835; D.D. of Hartford univ. U.S. of America 1857; V. of Holy Trinity, Bordesley, Birmingham 1841 to death; leader of high church party in Birmingham, established daily services and the observance of saints’ day 1841; he was libelled by marks put on the copper coins, such as ‘Oldknow is a papist and has pay from Rome,’ others were marked ‘No surplice,’ and such coins were at times thrown through the windows into the church during service time; the first in Birmingham to establish early weekly communion and harvest festivals; author of The catholic church, its nature, constitution and privileges 1839; A letter on the relations of the church of England to the church of Rome and the protestant bodies 1848; A month in Portugal 1855; The validity of the holy orders in the church of England 1857; Anti-ritual proceedings, a letter to the clergy of the rural deanery of Birmingham 1866; Sermons on various points of doctrine and practice 1868; and with A. D. Crake The priest’s book of private devotion 1872, 4 ed. 1891. _d._ Birmingham 3 Sept. 1874. _bur._ Holy Trinity churchyard. _Guide to the church congress_ (1883) 54–5. O’LEARY, DANIEL FLORENCE. Served in the war of Colombian independence, general of brigade; aide-de-camp to general Bolivar 1819–27; British consul at Puerto Cabello 11 Aug. 1841; chargé d’ affaires and consul general in New Granada 28 Nov. 1843 to death. _d._ 24 Feb. 1854. O’LEARY, ELLEN (dau. of a shopkeeper). _b._ Tipperary 1831; contributed verse to The Commercial journal, The Irishman, The Shamrock, and to the Irish People newspaper Nov. 1863 to 15 Sept. 1865, when the paper was seized by the government; assisted James Stephens, chief organiser of the Irish republic, in directing the affairs of the Fenian organisation; raised £200 on a mortgage of her property to help Stephens to escape from Ireland 1866; resided in Tipperary 1866–85, and with her brother John O’Leary in Dublin from 1885. _d._ Cork 16 Oct. 1889. _Ellen O’Leary’s Lays of country, home and friends_ (1891) _portrait_; _A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century_ (1893) 449–58; _Irish Monthly xvii_ 83–94 (1889); _Academy xl_ 70 (1891). O’LEARY, WILLIAM HAGERTY (son of Thomas O’Leary of Charleston road, co. Dublin). _b._ 16 June 1839; educ. catholic univ. Ireland, gold medallist; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1861, F.R.C.S. Ireland 1871; professor of anatomy and physiology at Sedwick school of medicine 1872–4; surgeon to St. Vincent’s hospital, Dublin to 1874; M.P. Drogheda 5 Feb. 1874 to death; wrote on Original researches on the sources of animal heat; New theory on the functions of iron in the blood; Food, its relation to animal heat and muscular motion; received a treasury grant to assist him in prosecuting investigations in scientific philosophy. _d._ 1 Cottage green, Camberwell, London 15 Feb. 1880. OLIPHANT, SIR ANTHONY (3 son of Ebenezer Oliphant of Condie, Perth, _d._ 1807). _b._ Condie 1793; educ. Hyde Abbey school; advocate Edinburgh; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1821; attorney general, Cape of Good Hope 1826–38; chief justice of Ceylon 22 Oct. 1838, retired on a pension 1855; knighted by patent 7 Aug. 1839; C.B. 27 April 1848. _d._ London 9 March 1859. _Gent. Mag. vi_ 429 (1859). OLIPHANT, FRANCIS ROMANO (younger son of the succeeding). _b._ Rome Oct.-Dec. 1859; educ. Eton, at Balliol coll. Oxf. and at New Inn hall; B.A. 1883; assistant to R. R. Holmes in the royal library at Windsor castle; contributed frequently to The Spectator and other periodicals; assisted his mother M. O. Oliphant in the preparation of her Victorian age of literature 1892; author of Notes of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land 1891. _d._ about 4 Oct. 1894. _Times 5 Oct. 1894 p._ 3, _13 Oct. p._ 6. NOTE.--His elder brother Cyril Francis Oliphant, _b._ 1856, educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1883, published in 1890 in the Foreign classics series A biography and criticism of the work of Alfred de Musset, he _d._ 1890. OLIPHANT, FRANCIS WILSON (son of Thomas Oliphant of Edinburgh). _b._ Newcastle 31 Aug. 1818; educ. Edinburgh academy of art; designer of painted glass in the works of Messrs. Wailes of Newcastle; worked with Welby Pugin in London, especially upon the painted windows in new houses of parliament; sent in a cartoon to the competition for the decoration of Westminster Hall; exhibited the Prodigal son nearing home and 4 other pictures at R.A. 1849–55; produced the windows in the ante-chapel of King’s college, Cambridge, those in the chancel of Aylesbury church, and designed the famous choristers’ window in Ely cathedral; author of A plea for painted glass 1855. _d._ Rome Oct. 1859. OLIPHANT, HENRY WILLIAM. _b._ 1822; connected with Drury lane theatre 1842–46; edited Weekly Despatch; edited Sunday Times to death; resided 8 Brigstock road, Croydon. _d._ Clapham, London 5 March 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 10 March. OLIPHANT, LAURENCE (only child of sir Anthony Oliphant 1793–1859). _b._ Capetown 1829; private secretary to his father in Ceylon 1848; called to the bar in Ceylon; barrister Lincoln’s Inn 30 April 1855; secretary to lord Elgin during negotiation at Washington of reciprocity treaty with Canada 1854; superintendent of Indian affairs at Quebec 1854; went to the Crimea with lord Stratford de Redcliffe 1855; joined the force under Omar Pasha, present at battle of the Ingour 6 Nov. 1855, was correspondent of The Times during this expedition; a candidate for Stirling 1855; private secretary to lord Elgin in China and Japan 1857–9; first secretary of legation in Japan, arrived at Yeddo June 1861, severely wounded by a Japanese 5 July, returned to England; started with sir Algernon Borthwick and others a journal called The Owl 1864, contributed to the first ten numbers; M.P. the Stirling burghs 13 July 1865 to April 1868; joined the community of The Brotherhood of the New Life, of which Thomas Lake Harris was the leader, at Brockton Junction or Salem-on-Erie, Chautauqua county, United States of America 1867, where he gave all his money to the community and was employed in very menial occupations; Times correspondent in the Franco-German war 1870–71; _m._ June 1872 at St. George’s, Hanover sq. London, Alice, dau. of Henry le Strange of Hunstanton, Norfolk (she _d._ at Haifa, Syria 2 Jany. 1886 aged 40), returned with his wife and mother to Brockton by Harris’s orders 1873; recovered his land at Brockton by legal proceedings from Harris May 1881; resided a great deal at Mount Carmel, Palestine from 1882; _m._ (2) at Malvern 16 Aug. 1888 Rosamond Dale, dau. of Robert Dale Owen; author of A journey to Khatmandu 1852; The Russian shores of the Black Sea 1853; The Trans-Caucasian campaign under Omar Pasha, a personal narrative 1856; Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s mission to China and Japan in the years 1857–8–9, 2 vols. 1859; Patriots and filibusters incidents of political and exploratory travel 1860; Universal suffrage and Napoleon the Third 1860; Piccadilly, a fragment of contemporary biography 1870, 5 ed. 1874; The land of Gilead with excursions in the Lebanon 1880; The land of Khemi, up and down the Middle Nile 1882; Traits and travesties 1882; Altiora Peto, 2 vols. 1883; Massollam, 3 vols. 1886; Episodes in a life of adventure 1887; Fashionable philosophy 1887; The star in the east 1887; Scientific religion 1888; author with Alice Oliphant of Sympneumata 1885. _d._ at residence of sir M. G. Duff, York house, Richmond road, Twickenham 23 Dec. 1888. _M. O. W. Oliphant’s Memoir of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice, his wife_, 2 _vols._ (1891) _with portraits_; _L. Liesching’s Personal reminiscences of L. Oliphant_ (1891); _R. Mac Cully’s Brotherhood of the new life_ (1893) 146–61; _The Times 21 Jany. 1886 p._ 7, _23 Jany. p._ 10. NOTE.--He is described under name of Cyril Gordon in Haskett Smith’s novel For God and humanity, a romance of Mount Carmel, 3 vols. 1891, the dedication is inscribed ‘To the memory of my beloved friend Laurence Oliphant.’ OLIPHANT, THOMAS (son of Ebenezer Oliphant of Condie, Strathearn, Perthshire). _b._ Condie 25 Dec. 1799; educ. Winchester; member of the stock exchange, London a short time; member of the Madrigal society 1830, adapted for the use of its members English words to Italian madrigals, honorary secretary of the society many years, president 1871; sang as a bass vocalist in the chorus at the Handel festival, Westminster Abbey 1834; engaged cataloguing the music at British museum some years; wrote English versions of Beethoven’s Fidelio and the Mount of Olives, and the words for many songs; author of Comments of a chorus singer at the royal musical festival in Westminster abbey. By Solomon Sackbut 1834; A brief account of the Madrigal society 1835; A short account of madrigals 1836; La musa madrigalesia 1837; In C. E. Pascoe’s Everyday life in our public schools 1881 he wrote the section Life among the Oppidans, Eton pp. 37–62; edited and arranged Catches and rounds by Old Composers 1835; Ditties of the olden time 1835; Ten favourite madrigals 1836; German songs adapted to English words, two series, Nos. 1 to 40, 1838–49; Six ancient part songs for five voices 1845; Six English songs 1847; Select German and English vocal duets 1849; Phœbe and Corydon by W. Croft 1853; National and popular ballads 1863; his name is attached to upwards of 70 pieces, chiefly of arranged music 1835–73. _d._ Great Marlborough st. London 9 March 1873, his collection of ancient music sold by Puttick and Simpson April 24–6. OLIPHANT, WILLIAM. _b._ Edinburgh 14 Jany. 1807; bookseller as Wm. Oliphant & co. 7 South Bridge, Edinburgh 1831 to death. _d._ 21 Buccleuch place, Edinb. 13 Nov. 1860. _Bookseller Dec. 1860 p._ 908. OLIVEIRA, BENJAMIN (3 son of Dominick Oliveira of Madeira, then of London, merchant, naturalised by R.L. 30 Aug. 1811, and _d._ 1846). _b._ England 24 June 1806; contested Reading 8 Jany. 1835; M.P. Pontefract 8 July 1852 to 20 March 1857; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; revived the Star club 1830, president 1831 to death, in 1855 sir F. G. Moon the lord mayor conferred on the club a charter constituting it The Star club of London; author of Wine duties reduction, committee proceedings 1861; A few observations on the works of the isthmus of Suez canal 1863; A visit to the Spanish camp in Morocco during the late war 1863. _d._ 8 Upper Hyde Park st. London 28 Sept. 1865. _Memorials of Star club of London_ (1860) _memoir and portrait_; _G. M. xix_ 658 (1865); _I.L.N. xxii_ 277, 278 (1853) _portrait_. OLIVER, EMMA SOPHIA (dau. of W. Eburne of Rathbone place, London, coachbuilder). _b._ 15 Aug. 1819; exhibited 34 landscapes at R.A., 19 at B.I. and 35 at Suffolk st. 1842–74; member of New society of painters in water-colours 1849; _m._ 1840 Wm. Oliver landscape painter 1804–53; _m._ (2) about 1856 John Sedgwick of Watford, Herts, solicitor, _b._ 1812, _d._ 23 Oct. 1882. She _d._ Brewery house, Great Berkhamstead 15 March